BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 4.7.23//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Nat King Cole born 1919 DTSTAMP:20250416T184432Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:249-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":troy@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n These are all the songs in the Nat King Cole Trio recordi ngs that were composed by black writers. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Easy Listening Blues\n\n composed by Nadine Robinson [ nat king cole's first wife\; they met on tour with the play \"Shuffle Along\"  [[ https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shuffle_Along ]] ]\n\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws1igAr1pY4\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n This way out \n\n composed by Nat King Cole [ the first song he recorded that he composed]\n\n https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=S_l3oDI3e7E\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Honeysuckle Rose\n \n written + composed by Fats Waller + Andy Razaf (Andriamanantena Paul Ra zafinkarefo) [for the off broadway play [[\"Load of Coal\"]] at Connie's I nn]\n\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Xcyvd5hpU\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\ n\n\n Lyrics\n\n\n\n Every honey bee fills with jealousy\,<\;br>\;\n when they see you out with me.<\;br>\;\n Goodness knows<\;br>\;\n You're my Honeysuckle Rose<\;br>\;\n When you're passin' by flowers dr oop and sigh\,<\;br>\;\n and I know the reason why.<\;br>\;\n Good ness knows<\;br>\;\n You're my Honeysuckle Rose<\;br>\;\n Don't bu y sugar\,<\;br>\;\n You just have to touch my cup.<\;br>\;\n You'r e my sugar.<\;br>\;\n It's sweeter when you stir it up.<\;br>\;\n When I'm taking sips from your tasty lips<\;br>\;\n seems the honey fa irly drips.<\;br>\;\n Goodness knows<\;br>\;\n You're my Honeysuck le Rose<\;br>\;\n Guitar solo<\;br>\;\n Goodness knows<\;br>\; \n You're my Honeysuckle Rose<\;br>\;\n Don't buy sugar\,<\;br>\;\ n You just have to touch my cup.<\;br>\;\n You're my sugar.<\;br>\ ;\n It's sweeter when you stir it up.<\;br>\;\n When I'm taking sips f rom your tasty lips<\;br>\;\n seems the honey fairly drips.<\;br>\ ;\n Goodness knows<\;br>\;\n You're my Honeysuckle Rose\n\n\n\n\n Wall er + Razaff also did \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Aint Misbehavin lyrics + compositi on from Razaf + waller\n\n for a musical revue \"Hot Chocolates\" ... fina nced by dutch schultz\n\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ8fWP6a3Q4\n\n\ n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n <\;p>\;\n AINT MISBEHAVIN<\;br>\;\n No one to talk with<\;br>\;\n All by myself<\;br>\;\n No one to walk wit h<\;br>\;\n But I'm happy<\;br>\;\n On the shelf<\;br>\;\n Ain 't misbehavin'<\;br>\;\n I'm savin' my love for you\n<\;/p>\;\n\n& lt\;p>\;\n I know for certain<\;br>\;\n The one I love<\;br>\;\n I'm through with flirtin'<\;br>\;\n It's you that I'm thinkin' of<\ ;br>\;\n Ain't misbehavin'<\;br>\;\n I'm savin' my love for you\n< \;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;\n Like Jack Horner<\;br>\;\n In the corner< \;br>\;\n Don't go nowhere<\;br>\;\n What do I care?<\;br>\;\n Y our kisses<\;br>\;\n Are worth waitin' for<\;br>\;\n Believe me\n& lt\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;\n I don't stay out late<\;br>\;\n Don't car e to go<\;br>\;\n I'm home about eight<\;br>\;\n Just me and my ra dio<\;br>\;\n Ain't misbehavin'<\;br>\;\n I'm savin' my love for y ou<\;br>\;\n Ain't misbehavin'<\;br>\;\n I'm savin' my love for yo u\n<\;/p>\;\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Razaf wrote this classic\, originally for the musical revue \"Hot chocolates\" with music by fats wa ller\n\n \"(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue\"\n\n https://www.youtu be.com/watch?v=WHCPM7K0evc\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n LYRICS\n\n\n\n Col d empty bed\, springs hurt my head<\;br>\;\n Feels like ole ned\, wish ed I was dead<\;br>\;\n What did I do to be so black and blue<\;br&g t\;\n Even the mouse ran from my house<\;br>\;\n They laugh at you and all that you do<\;br>\;\n What did I do to be so black and blue<\;b r>\;\n I'm white inside but\, that don't help my case<\;br>\;\n ThIs life can't hide what is in my face<\;br>\;\n How would it end ain't g ot a friend<\;br>\;\n My only sin is in my skin<\;br>\;\n What did I do to be so black and blue<\;br>\;\n How would it end I ain't got a friend<\;br>\;\n My only sin is in my skin<\;br>\;\n What did I d o to be so black and blue\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n NOTES to black and blue\n\n He demanded a comedy song for a lady who says how tough it is to be black ...He literally put a gun to Andy's head and told him that if he didn't wr ite it he would never write again. The opening-night response to the song was silence -people were stunned. Then they went crazy. Andy hadn't writte n the comedy song Schultz wanted\, but because it was a hit\, Schultz left him alone.\n\n — Barry Singer\, author of \"Black and Blue: The Life and Lyrics of Andy Razaf \n\n [Holden\, Stephen (8 February 1989). \"A Lo t of Hit Songs from an Unsung Lyricist\". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 May 2024. \; https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/08/arts/a-lot-of-hit-songs-f rom-an-unsung-lyricist.html ]\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n And Edgar Sampson wrote Stompin at the Savoy \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Straighten up and fly right\n\n written by Nat King Cole + Irving Mills\n\n Composed by Nat King Cole \n\ n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-4VTlQlros\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n LYRICS\n\n\n\n A buzzard took a monkey for a ride in the air<\;br>\;\ n The monkey thought that everything was on the square<\;br>\;\n The b uzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back<\;br>\;\n But the monkey grabbed his neck and said\, \"Now listen\, Jack\"<\;br>\;\n Straighte n up and fly right<\;br>\;\n Straighten up and stay right<\;br>\;\ n Straighten up and fly right<\;br>\;\n Cool down\, papa\, don't you b low your top<\;br>\;\n Ain't no use in divin'<\;br>\;\n What's the use in jivin'?<\;br>\;\n Straighten up and fly right<\;br>\;\n Co ol down\, papa\, don't you blow your top<\;br>\;\n The buzzard told th e monkey<\;br>\;\n You are chokin' me<\;br>\;\n Release your hold and I'll set you free<\;br>\;\n The monkey looked the buzzard right< \;br>\;\n Dead in the eye and said<\;br>\;\n \"Your story's so touch ing\, but it sounds<\;br>\;\n Just like a lie\"<\;br>\;\n Straight en up and fly right<\;br>\;\n Straighten up and stay right<\;br>\; \n Straighten up and fly right<\;br>\;\n Cool down\, papa\, don't you blow your top<\;br>\;\n Straighten up and fly right<\;br>\;\n Stra ighten up and stay right<\;br>\;\n Straighten up and fly right<\;br& gt\;\n Cool down\, papa\, don't you blow your top<\;br>\;\n Fly right\ n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n I Love You ( For sentimental reasons )\n\n written by Ivory \"Deek\" Watson of the Ink Spots  + William \"Pat\" Best of the Fo ur Tunes\n\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUnguqPxzNU\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n LYRICS\n\n\n\n I love you<\;br>\;\n For sentimental reason s<\;br>\;\n I hope you do believe me<\;br>\;\n I'll give you my he art<\;br>\;\n I love you<\;br>\;\n And you alone were meant for me <\;br>\;\n Please give your loving heart to me<\;br>\;\n And say w e'll never part<\;br>\;\n I think of you every morning<\;br>\;\n D ream of you every night<\;br>\;\n Darling I'm never lonely<\;br>\; \n Whenever you are in sight<\;br>\;\n I love you for sentimental reas ons<\;br>\;\n I hope you do believe me<\;br>\;\n I've given you my heart<\;br>\;\n I love you for sentimental reasons<\;br>\;\n I ho pe you do believe me<\;br>\;\n I've given you my heart\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\ n\n YOu know the Ink Spots\n\n\n\n \"Memories of You\" written by Razaf an d Eubie blake [ The song was introduced by singer Minto Cato in the Broadw ay show Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930. ]\n\n https://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=pg5Dv_QYwJI\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Memories of You from Andy Ra zaf<\;br>\;\n VERSE 1\n<\;br>\;<\;br>\;\n\n<\;p>\;\n Why c an't I forget like I should?<\;br>\;\n Heaven knows I would if I could <\;br>\;\n But I just can't keep you off my mind.<\;br>\;\n Though you're gone and love was in vain\,<\;br>\;\n All around me you still remain.<\;br>\;\n Wonder why fate should be so unkind.\n<\;/p>\;\n \n<\;p>\;\n REFRAIN\n<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;\n Waking skies<\;br >\;\n At sunrise\,<\;br>\;\n Ev'ry sunset\, too\,<\;br>\;\n Seem s to be<\;br>\;\n Bringing me<\;br>\;\n Memories of you.<\;br> \;\n Here and there\,<\;br>\;\n Ev'rywhere\,<\;br>\;\n Scenes that we once knew\,<\;br>\;\n And they all<\;br>\;\n Just recall<\;b r>\;\n Memories of you.<\;br>\;\n How I wish I could forget those< \;br>\;\n Happy yesteryears<\;br>\;\n That have left a rosary of tea rs.<\;br>\;\n Your face beams<\;br>\;\n In my dreams\,<\;br>\; \n 'Spite of all I do\,<\;br>\;\n Ev'rything<\;br>\;\n Seems to br ing<\;br>\;\n Memories of you.\n<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;\n VERSE 2\ n<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;\n Though for years we've been apart\,<\;br& gt\;\n Time heals ev'rything but my heart<\;br>\;\n That still aches f or you the same old way.<\;br>\;\n Seems I can't escape from the past\ ,<\;br>\;\n And your spell keeps holding me fast\,<\;br>\;\n Each tomorrow is like yesterday.\n<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;\n REPEAT REFRAIN\ n<\;/p>\;\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Memories of YOu  from Thelonius Monk\n \n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhxIIhA_JVk\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n From Eubie Blake\n\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw9KzKJJjPs\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n You know the Four Tunes\n\n \"I Understand (J ust How You Feel)\" written by Pat Best\n\n https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=achpJtgdDNk\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n LYRICS\n\n\n\n I understand jus t how you feel<\;br>\;\n Your love for me\, why not be mine?<\;br> \;\n It's over now but it was grand<\;br>\;\n I understand\, I underst and<\;br>\;\n If you ever change your mind<\;br>\;\n Come back to me and you will find<\;br>\;\n Me waiting there\, at your command<\; br>\;\n I understand\, I understand<\;br>\;\n I miss you so\, please believe me when I tell you<\;br>\;\n I just can't stand to see you go <\;br>\;\n You know<\;br>\;\n If you ever change your mind<\;br& gt\;\n Come back to me and you will find<\;br>\;\n Me waiting there at your command<\;br>\;\n I understand\, I understand<\;br>\;\n Plea se understand just how I feel<\;br>\;\n Your love for me why not revea l<\;br>\;\n And we will know this time it's real<\;br>\;\n We'll u nderstand\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n You Are My Love (1955 song) written by Jimm ie Nabbie\n\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTqBYz5Rouo\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n LYRICS\n\n <\;p>\;\n You are my love\, (you are my love)&l t\;br>\;\n My one and only!<\;br>\;\n When you're not near\, (when y ou're not near)<\;br>\;\n I'm oh\, so lonely!\n<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p& gt\;\n You are my love\, (you are my love)<\;br>\;\n And please believ e me\,<\;br>\;\n There's not another\,<\;br>\;\n There'll be no ot her one for me!#\n<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;\n I sigh and cry<\;br>\; \n And long for you\, (and long for you)<\;br>\;\n Oh my darling\, my dear one\,<\;br>\;\n Oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh!\n<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;\n You are my love\, (you are my love)<\;br>\;\n And please believe me\,& lt\;br>\;\n There's not another\,<\;br>\;\n There'll be no other one for me!\n<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;\n I sigh and cry<\;br>\;\n And l ong for you\,<\;br>\;\n Oh my darling\, my dear one\,<\;br>\;\n Oo oh-ooh-ooh-ooh!\n<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;\n You are my love\, (you are my love)<\;br>\;\n And please believe me\,<\;br>\;\n There's not a nother\,<\;br>\;\n There'll be no other one for me!<\;br>\;\n (you are my love) are my love!\n<\;/p>\;\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Those who kn ow me know I love Nat King Cole \, and I can place all the music he made\, remember\, the song is a collaborative project\, you can write a song\, b ut can you sing it? \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n The Portrait of Jenny\n\n lyrics J. Russel Robinson\, Gordon Burdge\n\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLT PhJMddxc\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n LYRICS so  lovely i can't resist< \;br>\;\n A Portrait of Jennie<\;br>\;\n More precious to me<\;br& gt\;\n Than a masterpiece<\;br>\;\n How ever famous it be<\;br>\;\ n The portrait of Jennie<\;br>\;\n Is etched on my heart<\;br>\;\n Where her features have been<\;br>\;\n Sketched from the start<\;br >\;\n Ah\, the color and beauty of life<\;br>\;\n And the glow of he r spirit divine<\;br>\;\n All cast in heaven's own design<\;br>\;\ n With a portrait of Jennie<\;br>\;\n I never will part<\;br>\;\n For there isn't any portrait of Jennie<\;br>\;\n Except in my heart< \;br>\;\n For there isn't any portrait of Jennie<\;br>\;\n Except in my heart\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Fly Me To The Moon ( In Other Words ) \n\n lyrics+composition from George Shearing\, Nat King Cole\n\n https://www.y outube.com/watch?v=rABO0_pvims\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n LYRICS<\;br& gt\;\n Poets often use many words to say a simple thing<\;br>\;\n It t akes thought and time and rhyme<\;br>\;\n To make a poem sing<\;br&g t\;\n With music and words I've been playing<\;br>\;\n For you\, I hav e written a song<\;br>\;\n To be sure that you'll know what I'm saying <\;br>\;\n I'll translate as I go along<\;br>\;\n Fly me to the mo on<\;br>\;\n And let me play among the stars<\;br>\;\n Let me see what spring is like<\;br>\;\n On Jupiter and Mars<\;br>\;\n In oth er words\, hold my hand<\;br>\;\n In other words\, darling kiss me<\ ;br>\;\n Fill my heart with song<\;br>\;\n And let me sing forever m ore<\;br>\;\n You are all I long for<\;br>\;\n All I worship and a dore<\;br>\;\n In other words\, please be true<\;br>\;\n In other words\, I love you<\;br>\;\n Fill my heart with song<\;br>\;\n And let me sing forever more<\;br>\;\n You are all I long for<\;br>\; \n All I worship and adore<\;br>\;\n In other words\, please be true&l t\;br>\;\n In other words\, I love you\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n COM MENTARIES\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 03192026\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/1 2600-happy-birthday-nat-king-cole/#findComment-80772\n\n\n\n osted just n ow\n\n\n\n @ProfD \n\n\n\n   On 3/18/2026 at 2:19 PM\, ProfD said:\n\ n\n\n The late\, great Nat King Cole was a real troubadour &\; excellen t musician.  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Colorism goes way back.  They did this to Nat King Cole for a TV appearance:\n\n\n\n I know\, but I look at it a nother way. Black people like Nat King Cole\, like Frederick Douglass\, ML K jr\, James Forten\, Michelle side Barrack Obama have always existed in t he usa or the white european colonies/dominions that proceded it. \n\n\n\ n Black people like Nat King Cole say to non blacks\, non black dosers\, t hat I will treat you with respect\, with civility \, even if you don't tre at me the same. And not because I want to be humiliated or insulted or bec ause I am weak\, but because I treasure peace even amongst you... especial ly amongst you. I don't want to live my life fighting whites every day. Th at to me is what Nat King Cole\, Billy Eckstine (that whites treated sinfu lly) Nichelle Nichols (who suffered a lot of crow for the idea of Uhura wh o lives among the non black humans in the future:) far far future in peace \, sorry non humans still a way to go for that) and other entertainers are saying. They fully know the Nat turners\, the Jean Jacques Dessalines\, t he Quilombos are in the community\, black people who don't trust the non b lack\, don't want to live civilly among the nonblack\, are willing to be a rmed and violent to uphold the way of life they want to have. But\, Nat Ki ng Cole and other blacks like him\, are willing to trust\, live civilly wi th\, willing to be unprotected around the non black\, not naively or stupi dly but with hope. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n That is the real point. Frederick Douglass's composite nation speech isn't suggesting the enslaver becomes t he friend easily or overnight or simply. The enslaver becomes the abuser\, the abuser becomes the trickster\, the trickster becomes the dour\, the d our may one day become the kin\, the kin becomes the ally\, the ally becom es the friend\, the friend becomes the lover.  Cause all awhile from ensl aver to lover\, the other was always the neighbor\, no segregation ever ex isted\, it was always integrated \,in various forms. So\, if the black is to embrace civility living aside the non black in various forms\, it is a process\, part of that process is being told to where white face paint and giving in sometimes and not giving in other times.  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 0322026 \n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12600-happy-birthday-nat-kin g-cole/#findComment-80826\n\n\n\n osted just now\n\n\n\n @aka Contrarian  \n\n\n\n is unforgettable your favrite nat king cole rendition?\n\n\n\n @ProfD \n\n\n\n a certain level of respect and admiration\, interesting w ords you chose to describe levels that didn't include respect or admiratio n to nat king cole in his life from his enemies. \n\n\n\n again\, the iss ue isn't about black enemies\, it is about black people gardless of their personal talents who are willing to live peacefully to the non black \, it is that simple. \n\n\n\n St patrick's day passed and I do like the film michael collins . Him and a few others in irish leadership really led to t he movement that made a part of ireland free from england after 700 years\ , but the key moment was when he realized that the freedom the irish wante d the happiness the irish wanted as a people\, not individuals\,  wasn't going to come through business ownership\, marching\, peitions\, governmen t engagement\, they did all of that for centuries and it led to nothing. T he only way ireland was going to be free\, which is why irish in most of i reland today are truly free\, is by killing english....\n\n\n\n Agan\, Jam es Forten to NAt King Cole to various black folk today\, live their lives to happiness in spite of the communities oppression. That to me is what wa rrants respect or admiration that is what nonblacks don't respect or admir e. being entertaining doesn't grant you respect or admiration from the bul ly. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 0322026\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12600- happy-birthday-nat-king-cole/#findComment-80834\n\n\n\n osted just now\n\ n\n\n @aka Contrarian Well from my assessment of history Douglass never l eft his black wife for his white mistress\, whom if I am correct\, killed herself...I checked\, frederick douglass first wife died before he married his second wife. as for nat king cole\, I knew he had cheated on his wife \,but I have never seen whom or any photos or anything. His wife I recall in some interview said he cheated and she went on tour in europe and came back and they continued their lives\, he didn't have cancer when she came back but it started soon enough after. So in both cases\, i wouldn't say as a male\, they left their wives. Both men were always married to their b lack wives while having a white mistress.  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n @ProfD \ n\n\n\n yes\, your correct\, financial revenue\, financial value for most \, 99% \, black folk in any industry in the usa historically is based on w hite dollars in the usa\, always has been \, i argue always will be based on the demographic reality. but financial revenue isn't respect or admirat ion. it is earned value labor something whites historically never want to give black people\, and for the financial record\, Nat King Cole was cheat ed money by whites. so earning money clearly doesn't yield respect or admi ration\, but if it is evenly done\, it does pay the bills\n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250317 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR